May 2010
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Chat Cups by Soop Group | Design Milk →
Trying to get back in the habit of actually recording the great and crazy things I find online again. Came across these cups on the Design Milk site and would love a set… hopefully they come with a bib because I know some of them will get a giggle and that’s not always the best when you’re drinking. lol
December 2008
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Naughty Santa! →
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Got munchies?
BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | Police sorry for drug raid mix up
An elderly couple returned from holiday to find their home had been raided by police
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looking for a cannabis farm. The culprit? Moss phlox (phlox subulata), which apparently has an extremely pungeant smell, not unsimilar to weed. They’d planted the plants in front and in back of their home a few years...
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A Pre-Nupp for Christmas??
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My jaw hit the floor when I saw one of the sites I frequent regularly promoting what I assumed to be pre-nuptual agreements for Christmas, failing to note the extra ‘p’.
I actually think Martin Lewis is on to a good thing…
A pre- NUPP is a ‘No Unwanted Present Pact’. It’s basically an email form for people to fill in before the holidays,...
Winter in the UK
Once the sun comes out - most of the UK will probably look like this again. Image by yukatafish via Flickr -
I was listening to the radio last night and I was sure I had mis-heard. I could have sworn that the news reader had said that 200 schools in the UK had been closed due after heavy snows had dumped over one inch of snow on some areas.
Tonight I’m hearing that there are still a...
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I Don't Own a Snow Shovel
When I was growing up outside of Chicago, I recall there being a pretty massive blizzard. I’m not sure if it was 1978 or 1979, but I was about six years old and
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when the drive and sidewalk had been cleared, there was enough snow at the base of our huge maple tree that I could climb the snowpile well into it’s branches.
Late in high school and while I was at...
November 2008
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“Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.”
WatchWhy do I have this feeling that I could watch and play in that for hours without getting bored?
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Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death by Customers
By JACK HEALY Published: November 28, 2008 A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after being trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a frenzy.
I’m...
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“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my...”
– Jon Stewart
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Tweetsgiving
Keeping with the Thanksgiving theme, I’m encouraging everyone to get involved with Tweetsgiving. Mostly aimed at Twitterers, it is a social networking celebration of the things we are thankful for and also a fundraiser to raise $10k to build a classroom in Tanzania and prove the power of social networking by raising the money in only 48 hours.
Please check out the site and get involved!...
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